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Thursday, December 31, 2009

Resoluting

Since this is the last day of 2009, the obvious blog post is list one's resolutions for 2010. Since I am a master of the obvious, I resolve:

To finish my next book. Talk about pie crust promises (easily made, easily broken). I have little doubt that we (Dave Auerswald and I) will finish the research, and write much of it up. But getting the entire thing done? Hmmm.

To put some work into revising my Intro to IR class

to make some of the links between readings and lectures more explicit

to come up with more creative writing assignments that do not involve Zombies.

To revise my IR of Ethnic Conflict class. I have not taught it in years.

To have fewer spelling errors in my blogs.

To play less but better poker.

To spend less time online.

To ski more with my daughter.

To emphasize the good stuff and not bitch so much.

To optimize my time at work.

To come up with a tenth resolution.

I would say I resolve to torture my nieces with outrageous accents, but I think I did enough of that in 2009.

Stephen M. Saideman

Intro

Greetings! I am a political scientist, specializing in International Relations, my research and teaching focus on ethnic conflict and civil-military relations. I watch way too much TV, and I like movies as well so I tend to write about both and find IR stuff in pop culture. I rant alot about American politics and sometimes about Canadian politics. I like to take ideas I once learned a long time ago and apply them to whatever strikes my fancy.